Ellis Island is an island that is located in Upper New York Bay in the Port of New York and New Jersey, United States. It was the gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 until 1954. The island was greatly expanded with land reclamation between 1892 and 1934. Before that, the much smaller original island was the site of Fort Gibson and later a naval magazine. The island was made part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument in 1965, and has hosted a museum of immigration since 1990.The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor, was built by Gustave Eiffel and dedicated on October 28, 1886. It was a gift to the United States from the people of France.Atlantic City & the Boardwalk

Atlantic City is a resort city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, known for its casinos, boardwalk and beach. It is the home of the Miss America Pageant.Princeton UniversityPrinceton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 as the College of New Jersey, Princeton was the fourth chartered institution of higher education in the Thirteen Colonies and thus one of the nine Colonial Colleges established before the American Revolution.Six Flags Great Adventure

Great Adventure is the largest theme park in the world at 510 acres! Known for its world-class thrill rides and one-of-a-kind Safari Off Road Adventure, the Jackson, NJ theme park boasts 12 roller coasters including three of the world's best—El Toro, Nitro and Kingda Ka. Kingda Ka (a steel accelerator roller coaster) is the world's tallest roller coaster (456 ft) , has the world's longest drop (418 ft) & is the world's second fastest roller coaster (128 mph). And I can tell you from personal experience...that it is just plain awesome!!

Quirky/Fun Facts about NJ

New Jersey is a peninsula. It is completely surrounded by water except for about 40 miles along the NY border.

Highlands, New Jersey has the highest elevation along the entire eastern seaboard, from Maine to Florida.

Picturesque Cape May holds the distinction of being the oldest seashore resort in the United States and one of the most unique.

Atlantic City has the longest boardwalk in the world, which was the first one built in the world in 1870.

The game Monopoly, played all over the world, named the streets on its playing board after actual streets in Atlantic City.

The first saltwater taffy in the world was produced at the Jersey shore in the 1870s.

New Jersey has the most stringent testing along our coastline for water quality control than any other seaboard state in the entire country.

Jersey tomatoes are known the world over as being the best you can buy.

New Jersey is the world leader in blueberry and cranberry production.

The first national historic park in America was established in 1933 in Morristown.

New Jersey has more race horses than Kentucky.

New Jersey has the densest system of highways and railroads in the US.

New Jersey has the most diners in the world and is sometimes referred to as the "Diner Capital of the World."

North Jersey has the most shopping malls in one area in the world, with seven major shopping malls in a 25 square mile radius.

New Jersey is a major seaport state with the largest seaport in the US, located in Elizabeth. Nearly 80 percent of what our nation imports comes through Elizabeth Seaport first.

The first recorded, official baseball game was played on June 19, 1846 in Hoboken.

The first intercollegiate football game was played in New Brunswick, in 1869. Rutgers College played Princeton. Rutgers won.

The light bulb, phonograph and motion picture projector were all invented by Thomas Edison in Menlo Park.

NJ built the first tunnel under a river, the Holland Tunnel under the Hudson River.

The first robot to replace a human worker was used by General Motors in Ewing Township in 1961.

The first steam locomotive to actually pull a train on a track was built by John Stevens of Hoboken in 1824.

Modern paleontology, the science of studying dinosaur fossils, began in 1858 with the discovery of the first nearly complete skeleton of a dinosaur in Haddonfield, New Jersey. The Hadrosaurus is the official New Jersey state dinosaur.

NJ's Pulaski Skyway, from Jersey City to Newark, was the first skyway ever built.

The first drive-in movie theater was opened in Camden in 1933.

Oregon and New Jersey are the only states without self-serve gas stations. Attendants must pump your gas according to state law.

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I've heard about the states where you can't pump your own gas. That just seems so weird to me! Although I guess it means that job is always going to be there for someone! Thanks for sharing all this awesome info!